Nathaniel Parker Willis Quotes

I love to go and mingle with the young In the gay festal room--when every heart Is beating faster than the merry tune, And their blue eyes are restless, and their lips Parted with eager joy, and their round cheeks Flush'd with the beautiful motion of the dance.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

• Heart
• Beautiful
• Joy
• Eye
• Gay
• Dancing
• Rooms
• Lips
• Restless

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• Indian classical music was born when time barely existed. It developed further within the structures of royal courts and a system of patronage where the ruler or the feudal master determined all.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Time
  • Music
  • Born

• Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Money
  • Enough
  • Bank

• I'm originally from southern California, so I, like, say 'like', like, a lot. I've been trying to scrub any traces of Valley Girl from my speech since I moved to New York, but it's, like, totally way harder than anyone thinks, you know?

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Trying
  • Girl
  • California

• All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

  

  Edmund Wilson
  • Hollywood
  • Corrupts

• I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Life
  • Love
  • Beyonce

• I always say you've only got one life to live, and you're not promised a tomorrow. So, you might as well just have a good time with it.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• I feel very passionately that we need to take care of the planet and everything on it. Whether it's saving the Amazon or just being kind to those around you, we need to take care of each other and Mother Earth.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Mother
  • Earth
  • Care

• I've always felt a little misrepresented in the world.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • World
  • Always
  • Little

• I'm surprised as anyone about where I've ended up. Maybe it's because I say yes to things.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Up
  • Things
  • Maybe

• Have a goal. Know where you want to end up. Knowing where you want to end up is a lot easier than figuring out how to start and how to get there. You will figure out how to get there. Do not chart your career. Trust me; you do not want to chart your career.

  

  Gary Cohn
  • Up
  • Career
  • Trust

• I knew you had to go in and audition and maybe they'd hire you, and that's where you start. I had a good understanding about press: that it's the actor's responsibility to publicize his or her films.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Good
  • Responsibility
  • Understanding

• What's great about having an audience is they can let you know what they don't think is funny, and you can just cut that out and keep trying.

  

  Maggie Carey
  • Great
  • Trying
  • Funny

• Gansey asked, 'Do you have time to run an errand with us? Do you have work? Homework?''No homework. I got suspended,' Blue replied.'Get the fuck out,' Ronan said, but with admiration. 'Sargent, you asshole.'Blue reluctantly allowed him to bump fists with her.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Time
  • Work
  • Blue

• Men are run ragged by female sexuality all their lives. From the beginning of his life to the end, no man ever fully commands any woman. It's an illusion. Men are pussy-whipped. And they know it. That's what the strip clubs are about; not woman as victim, not woman as slave, but woman as goddess.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Life
  • Men
  • Beginning

• Religion is...a conspiracy of...priests to gain control over the people...

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People
  • Control

• We have reached the bottom of the 9th inning, and now it is happening, what we normally experience at any ballpark when a visiting pitcher is so close to greatness, even the hometown fans come to root for him. He has come too far, he has journeyed too long to drop it.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Long
  • Experience
  • Greatness

• Everything is a dangerous drug to me except reality, which is unendurable.

  

  Cyril Connolly
  • Reality
  • Drug

• Ken, the Tot of Destiny, had turned into the Marquis de Sade, and I in response had become a virago.

  

  Elaine Dundy
  • Destiny

• El dolor no nos sigue: camina adelante.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• I grew up as a Christian, and one of the many things in Christian mythology that did not dovetail with real life is that human beings are not monochromatic in their being.

  

  Brandon Victor Dixon
  • Life
  • Up
  • Real

• If every inhabitant of a liberal democracy believes in liberal democracy, then it doesn't matter what creed or colour they are.

  

  Martin Amis
  • Democracy

• I love to go and mingle with the young In the gay festal room--when every heart Is beating faster than the merry tune, And their blue eyes are restless, and their lips Parted with eager joy, and their round cheeks Flush'd with the beautiful motion of the dance.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • Heart
  • Beautiful
  • Joy